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Episode 108

In today’s episode I am talking with one of our Joyful Mourning Community members, Amy Lagomarsino about her motherhood journey. A journey that has been filled with incredible loss and yet even amidst tears Amy speaks with joy and hope. Amy shares her story of infertility and seasons of waiting, she shares about pregnancy loss and miscarriage, she shares about her daughter Ella who received a life-limiting diagnosis and lived for 27 hours and she also shares honestly and tenderly about being pregnant again after such loss.

Like I said, her journey has been full of the hardest of things and yet she shares in a way that reminds me that even in the middle of such loss there is hope to be found.

During our time together, Amy not only shares her story but really helpful wisdom she has learned along the way from the different experiences that make up her motherhood journey. She has words of wisdom for the woman in a season of waiting and wondering if she will ever get pregnant. She has wisdom and encouragement for the woman who has just experienced a miscarriage.

She talks about how she prepared for the birth of her daughter Ella and what advice she would give to a woman who has been given a life-limiting diagnosis. She shares what it was like to walk her son Lorenzo through the loss of his baby sister. We talk honestly about guilt and what to do with all the could-haves or should-haves.

We talk about how she said her heart could not handle another loss and that meant no more trying to conceive again, you’ll have to tune in to hear what changed her mind. We talked about the tangible ways she mentally prepared to try and conceive again and how she dealt with others’ excitement over a pregnancy after loss when she just wasn’t quite there yet.

In fact, if you love a grieving mom, her explanation of why it was hard for her to tell others she was pregnant again might be really helpful and insightful to you. I specifically loved and was so encouraged by how her parents and extended family responded when she told them she was pregnant again. I wish every friend and family of a grieving mom could here at least that portion of the episode because it would just communicate an incredible amount of love in such a tender moment.

We even squeeze in how she chose to celebrate Ella’s birthday and honor her at Christmas and why it felt so important to do so. If you are a grieving mom, what she shares might give you some tangible ideas for your own celebrations, anniversaries and holidays. And if you love a grieving mom I think Amy’s thoughts on this might help you better understand a grieving mom.

This episode is full to the brim of real life wisdom about a journey no one asks for but many of us are on. I pray that this honest conversation is a blessing to you as you navigate your own journey.

QUESTIONS I ANSWER IN EPISODE 107

What would you say to a woman who is in a season of waiting?
What would you say to the woman who has recently experienced a miscarriage? What hope would you give her?
What was it like to walk through infertility and then to experience the loss of a baby? How did you not lose hope?
Tell us more about Ella’s diagnosis. What were the moments following the diagnosis like?
What would you say to a mom who has received a life-limiting diagnosis for her baby?
Tell me how you prepared for Ella’s birth. What advice would you give to a mom in a similar situation?
How did you make the decision to try to conceive again? Did you feel ready to try again? What would you say to a woman who is trying to make that decision?
What tips do you have for managing the day to day fear that exist in a pregnancy after loss?
Tell me how you celebrated Ella’s birthday and honored her at Christmas.